Who Already Has Their Chassis Built?

[DarkFlame145]

Just about done, we hammered out our chassie design on monday. So hopefully by friday or mid sat. we will have a rolling chassie.

[fordchrist675]

Ready for assembly.

Transmissions built ready for tonight or first thing tomorrow.

[lukevanoort]

We just got our transmissions, wheels, sprockets, and idlers today, so we aren't there yet. Additionally, some more parts need to come in before we can start constructing it. We could probably get it rolling in tomorrow, but then we'd need to take it apart again once our McMaster stuff arrives... more efficient to just wait, I think. The extra time is all going into the arm prototype and organizing the shop, so it isn't like it is wasted time.

[Cartwright]

We don't have it built yet, but we're not changing our design that much from last year's so it's no big deal.

[bhsrobotics1671]

we finished chassis designs today. we are still waiting for our wheels and transmissions but we will start manufacturing the frame tomorrow, hoping to get it all done in a few hours so its ready for parts as they arrive. we are in pretty good shape.

[synth3tk]

We've been doing more designing/brainstorming than last year, learning from our "experience" with lack of planning. So we will start building Friday since it's our late night. Pretty good ideas bouncing around, though.

[Justin M.]

We ordered the metal and parts today. Decided mid way to switch to dual CIM toughboxes. I haven't assembled them yet though, they're still sitting in my car.

Chassis should be done by mid-next week. By next weekend we should be wired, moving, and ready for a manipulator. I wish we could of been starting the build now, but I guess it's ok. Our robot is going to require some heavy programming, debugging, and driver practice this year so we're shooting for mid 4th week for a complete robot.

[GUI]

We haven't quite decided between an Ackerman-style drivebase or 6 wheel drive, but we have a general frame concept that should work for either one.

[AndyB]

Chassis done, waiting on shipping for a pair of omni's from AM to finish the whole drive. We have a floating chassis as of right now with gearboxes and a temporary electrical panel mounted.

Tomorrow we should have a working drive sans omni wheels.

[Lions for First]

we are waiting for parts right now so but evrything is set up so i want a rolling chassis by sat. night so we are doing ok as of now and i want to be done by mid week 4 *knock on wood*

[=Martin=Taylor=]

We have an identical drive train finished. It was built prior to kickoff so it is not legal. The next step is to duplicate it - this should take a few days.

We intentionally held off on building the drivetrain to wait and see what our manipulator would look like.

[JHSmentor]

We have the drive train designed and the chassis is being cut. Transmissions are built but waiting for some parts to add dual CIMs to each. We need some other wheel parts and sprockets as well - total build for the running chassis should be done by the end of next week. I wanted something sooner but, being a rookie team, it seems hard to pass on the urgency to the students. they all seem to have so many commitments!! Anyway, we have 2 arm designs and another manipulator figured out - need to test them to see what works best before finalizing anything. Other than the increadible mess they make each day, everyone is working rather well together.

All ordered parts have been shipped, and fabrication starts tomorrow. We should be done with both bases by the end of next week.

[GUI]

We built a prototype today to test ackermann steering, after testing tomorrow we will know what we're actually using. Then we should be finished in about 2 weeks max.